Geraldo Rivera and Dan Bongino Fight It Out Over Caravan on Hannity

Geraldo Rivera and Dan Bongino had a heated argument over the migrant caravan attempting to enter the U.S. on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program.

Bleeding-heart Geraldo defends caravan

Geraldo, one of the more recognizable liberals on the conservative network, objected to the portrayal of the migrant caravan as a threat to the United States. Just days before, Geraldo defended the caravan after Border Patrol fired tear gas at migrants attempting to force their way into the U.S., saying the following: “This goes to my soul. Fulfilling my role as the designated piñata on Fox News, I wanna say I am ashamed. This tear gas choked me.”

Geraldo appeared on Hannity’s show and reiterated his defense of the migrant caravan. Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, refused to let him get away with it, and tried to temper his, well, temper. He replied: “Geraldo, again, I appreciate your nice comments. I consider you a friend. But you are way, way off base on this. I have stood at roll calls, I was a law enforcement officer. I’m not looking for anybody’s pat on the back, your tax dollars paid for it, it was a great job.”

Bongino slaps down Geraldo

That’s when voices start getting loud. Check out the exchange below:

Geraldo ignores the caravan threat

Frankly, Bongino and Hannity went too soft on Geraldo. The migrant caravan, despite the women and children in tow, is a threat to the safety and security of the United States. Some of the migrants literally attempted to storm their way into the country without legal permission, and violently attacking Border Patrol agents. (RELATED: Migrants Chant ‘Yes We Can,’ Attempt to Storm Southern Border.)

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Geraldo has a problem with the rear gas? So do i, it’s indiscriminate, snipers are much more specific! Throw a rock eat a bullet, problem solved, send the body bags to Mexico for the rock throwers, all done! Or a less lethal for those queasy the military has a directional microwave used to ward terrorist off from getting to close. Turn it up light them up! Makes them feel like they are on fire, that should deter gate crashers!

Geraldo based his arguments and his assessment of the conditions of the migrants at the border solely upon the staged, edited, videos shown by leftist media. Geraldo knows the main stream media business well, and he knows these videos are staged and edited, and don’t present an accurate representation of what is happening at the border. He ignores or discredits the reports of those in the field, including the healthcare workers (calling the report “slander”.This is a familiar leftist tactic used to avoid addressing an issue, though the most often heard charges are racism, sexism, or some type of phobia.). He only references the staged videos, including the photo which falsely depicts a woman and children running from what is supposed to be tear gas, but which turned out to be a commercially available smoke cannister, identifiable by its markings.

“These images are etched in our national psyche” he sternly declares, (and hopes).
Yes, and those photos are fake news and he knows it.

“Three videos of rock throwing” Geraldo said implying the incidence was minimal. But leftist media edited out most of the rock throwing scenes, and focused on staged photos of women and children running from a smoke cannister, which they falsely claimed was tear gas. (markings on the cannister prove this).

Geraldo said: “what about the scenes of them living in squalor in the athletic field? And, where they’re begging for food, and overflowing toilets, and the most inhumane conditions?”

Again, he references the staged videos shown on leftist media.
But he neglects to mention the United Nations migrant aide camps set up along the entire route of the caravan, and the aide and food given to the migrants south of the border. He neglects to mention that the migrants refused offers of asylum and help from the Mexican government.

And the multiple reports which tell us the migrants are primarily young men?
Geraldo says: “…are you going to believe the videos of the composition of this crowd. This is a benign, civilian crowd.”
Once again, he references the leftist media staged videos of the crowd, and ignores the multiple, corroborated, reports about the composition of the migrants at the border.

His sole purpose here was to reinforce the story told by the leftist media staged videos, and to refute or minimize any other information.
Geraldo is skilled at managing his message in these timed interviews. He skillfully defects and avoids addressing direct questions, always pivoting to some criticism of the border patrol, or of Sean and Dan. Finally he suggested that ambassadors should be sent to talk to the men using lethal force against the agents. That was ridiculous and bizarre, and Sean and Dan should have done more to point that out.

How many border patrol agents does Geraldo think should be maimed or killed by the projectiles while they wait for the ambassadors to sing Kum Bah Yah and make peace with the attackers?

Geraldo focused solely on an emotional review of the leftist story, evoking images of starving families, begging for food. Why? Because the media staged some scenes of overflowing toilets and begging, pleading women.

But what about the United Nations aide stations, not just at the border, but set up along the entire route of the journey? (They also provided trucks, and buses.) And other groups aided them as well, including groups such as “People Without Borders” which oppose the sovereignty of the United States.

Geraldo is skilled at managing his message in timed TV interviews. Notice how he was careful to phrase his statements such that he communicated the mental image he wanted without committing himself directly, without making outright statements of fact which could be disputed and shown to be false. His positions were often merely implied by the emotional images he evoked. As the time ran down he began his dramatic finale, preacher like cadence, slowly increasing in volume, heavy on the emotional images, so the last thing people remember is the leftist fairy tale he came on the show to promote.

This is the battle we face with leftists. They dominate the media, both propaganda news and entertainment, and are very skilled in presenting images, implying messages, and deftly painting their opponents as the bad guys.

We have the advantage of the truth. But we don’t do a good job of combating the false narratives of the left. They are very skilled at presenting their fiction as truth, supported by staged photos, videos, and even staged events.
We must get better at exposing their fictions, and presenting the truth supported by corroborated facts.

Hey idiot jerkoff Riverohno what part of these diseases caring a bunch of worthless POS’s criminals that they are not coming in our country until they are legal I don’t think help will help you so you just need to go to cnn and maybe you will fit in there. I have always thought that you were a full-blooded idiot from the word jump street

Geraldo should put his money where his mouth is. Why isn’t he spending his own money to throw food,etc. over the border to help them. The caravan started it first with the rock throwing so what can they expect in return. If they are demanding now, what next? They had the opporturnity to stay and work in Mexico but wanted to come here for the freebies. Why didn’t they go to Costa Rica or Belize; guess they wouldn’t let them in. Two hundred years ago,emigrants coming here usually had money in their pocket and didn’t expect handouts. These latinos are like the muslims who want to change the us. iTS bad enough they don’t learn English and we have to tolerate spanish and eventually learn it. A friend had to transfer her job to Louisiana cause she couldn’t speak spanish here in Texas. My bank of 40 years has no whites, or blacks working in it. Can hardly understand their broken EnglisWhy are the blacks crying discrimination. We are getting overrun with illiterates and parasites and if we don’t stop them now, we will ne a 3rd world country. Things has changed in 200 years when the US was sparse. Now the people are moving further from the city and squallor caused by these new emigrants. Look at the ‘no zone’ the muslims have created.

Yeh, Geraldo is really a bleeding heart – so much so that, in his early tv days, on his Geraldo show, he fomented and egged on the guests on his show against one another until chairs and fists were flying. I wish someone would pull up some clips from his Geraldo crap show.

He is a comm[e in demonrat clothing – faux tears and all! (and yes, I know demonrats ARE comm[es too!)

With that said, it doesn’t matter WHO is in that caravan. It doesn’t matter WHAT diseases they are carrying. It doesn’t matter WHY they all want to come here. WHEN and WHERE are already obvious. WHAT MATTERS is that they HAVE NO RIGHT to enter our country, or any other country, unless it is done LEGALLY and they intend to ASSIMILATE. So Hannity and all the other hosts need to STOP giving excuses as to why they shouldn’t be allowed in other than the REAL REASON that I just stated!!

Didn;t geraldo get his butt kicked out of Afghanistan and Iraq for filing false reports? that was with the military watching over his shoulder and catching him red handed. The man makes money by buying an attention whore.

Geraldo is freaken moron demo-crap imbecile that dose not know his ass from a hole in the ground. it been proven the MS13 are mixed in and they rape ant female age does not matter to them. And this moron sits there and states that will never happen, ms13 murders people and is get not the ms13 but the majority of them are so cowardly they push the women and child as human shields so they can hide.
Theses are bringing sickness that can our children and even the demo crack-heads of DC weather stand behind them than any American as traitors to this Nation and should be arrested and tried as such, ALL OF THEM

Rivera and ALL the bleeding hearts who think these INVADERS are all great people individually have the right to PERSONALLY sponsor an individual or family at their own expense rather than passing on the burden to taxpayers who do not agree with allowing millions of foreigners to the over our country!! But all these lefties would do is to hand pick people who I am sure they would check out before taking responsibility for ANY of these immigrants!!! This caravan of thousands is a drop in the bucket to those who sneak in annually and a WALL must be built to stop the invasion!!! All these Hollywood people and other “celebrities” somehow manage to keep their wealth while keeping the Average American broke paying the tab!

I have no problems with Geraldo. He’s a perfectly respectable pundit, EXCEPT when Latinos are involved. Then, he proves once again that “Blood is thicker than water.” Yes, race and culture do matter, a helluva lot.

Hope Geraldo learned a lesson! Dan Bongino and Sean Hannity were correct. Can’t understand wny Geraldo is such a bleeding heart. Yes the caravan has criminals and diseases within its ranks! Any one with a brain can see it is the libs/dems plot to secure more voters in the long run but these people are really invaders and must be stopped!